Grain-scoop.



I. L. MEADOWS.

GRAIN SCOOP.

- APPLICATION ITILED SEPT. 6, 1910.

992,972, Patented May 23, 1911.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PERRY LEE MEADOWS, 0F FAIRFIELD, IOWA, ASSIGN'OR 0F ONE-HALF '10 WALKER H.

CARNAGEY, 0F FAIRIEIELD, IOWA.

GRAIN-SCOOP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 23, 1911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PERRY L. MEADOWS, citizen of the United States, residing at Fairfield, in the county of Jefferson and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Grain-Scoops, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to implements employed in loading grain cars, and for similar purposes, and has for one of its objects to provide a simply constructed device which automatically assumes an operative position when moved in one direction and assumes an inoperative position when moved in the opposite direction. Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character in which portions may be dismembered to enable the device to be disposed in a small space for transportation or storage.

The improved implement may be employed for a variety of purposes, but is designed more particularly for use in loading cars with grain, to enable the grain to be readily and quickly moved into the end portions of the cars.

With these and other objects in view the V invention consists in certain novel features of construction as herein shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims; and, in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention, Figure l is a perspective view of the improved implement arranged for the forward stroke; Fig. 2 is an underneath perspective, showing the location of the parts during the return or rearward stroke.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved device comprises a handle or stock, preferably in two portions 1011 detachably united end for end, as shown at 12, so that the handle members may be disconnected when the implement is to be shipped or stored, or when not in use. Connected to the handle section 11 is a hinge member 13 to which the shovel or blade 14 is swingingly connected. The blade 14 is formed from a single sheet of metal, preferably steel and curved transversely, and witha roll 15 at the upper edge to receive a rod 16 which passes through the hinge member 13 as shown. The blade 14 is provided with curved reinforcing strips 17'18 upon the rear face, and the strips are provided respectively with ribs 19-20 having sockets to swingingly support the outturned ends 2122 of a brace rod 23, the brace rod being bent into an eye 24 centrally thereof, as shown.

Connected to the handle member 11 is a guide rod 25 over which the eye 24 of the rod 23 is slidably engaged, the guide rod having upturned ends 2627 extending through the handle members 11 and rigidly secured thereto.

The guide rod is so located relative to the blade 14 that when the blade is disposed substantially at right angles to the handle, the eye 24 will engage the end 26 and thus limitthe movement of the blade rearwardly, and the upturned end 27 will be engaged by the eye 24 when the blade 14 is in a position substantially in horizontal alinement with the handle members and thus limit the forward movement.

It will thus be noted that a simply constructed implement is produced in which the blade will assume a position at right angles to the handle members during the forward or outward stroke and will automatically assume a position substantially in alinement with the handle members at the rearward or return stroke. Thus when loading cars with grain, as the grain comes in from the spout the operator pushes the improved implement against the grain and toward the ends of the car, the blade 14 assuming the position shown in Fig. 1, or in the most effective posit on, and then at the return stroke the blade simply drags over the grain and without drawing any of it toward the operator.

The improved implement can be constructed of any required size or of any suitable material, but all the parts exceptthe handle sections 11-11 are preferably of metal and as light as possible consistent with the strain to which they are subjected.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. An implement of the class described comprising a handle, a blade mounted to swing upon said handle, and means operating to permit the free movement of said blade when the handle is moved in one direction and to limit the movement of the blade when the handle is moved in the opposite direction.

2. An implement of the class described comprising a handle, a blade mounted to swing upon said handle, a brace member swinging from said blade, means for slidably engaging said brace to said handle, and a stop operating to limit the movement of the brace in one direction.

3. An implement of the class described comprising a handle, a blade mounted to swing upon said handle, a brace member swinging at one end from said blade'and with an eye at the other end, a guide device carried by said handle and slidably engaged by said brace eye, and a stop operating to limit the movement of the brace in one direction.

4. An implement of the class described comprising a handle, a blade mounted to swing upon said handle, a brace including diverging side members swingingly connected at their ends to said blade and with an eye at the juncture of the side members, a guide carried by the handle and slidably diverging and outturned at the terminals to engage in the sockets of the reinforcing members, a guide carried by the handle and with which said brace eye slidably engages, and operating to limit the movement of the brace and blade in one direction.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PERRY LEE MEADOWS.

Witnesses:

J. E. BowERMAs'rER, Tnos. W. HANNAH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

